Flattening a Series of Angled Surfaces

[Denis_Flueraru]

Hi,

Does anybody know how can I turn flat all the surfaces that form this octant?
I tried loads of ways but just can’t seem to find a solution.

Thanks,

[stevefuchs]

Hi Denis,

Welcome to the forum. Can you explain how you originally created this geometry, if a script or grasshopper was used, and if so, please attach your geometry and script, so others can have a look? The screenshots are helpful but not enough to help you along, yet.

[Denis_Flueraru]

Hey Steve,

I originally created it in Grasshopper using Rhino 7.

The whole Grasshopper sketch is attached on the following link:

voronoi octant connectors.gh

[Joseph_Oster]

I used OpenNest Unroll recently, though manually picked strips of adjacent faces using text panels:

How To Nest Strips of Adjacent Panels - Burning Man Art Car

This version breaks up some larger strips and passes them through OpenNest. I discovered one number that had been included in two lists, might be good to have code check for that. Looks like the sequence of branches got out of sync. P.S. Cosmetic update to sync the colors. [hexagons_2024_Jul21cc] hexagons_2024_Jul21cc.gh (99.8 KB)

How To Nest Strips of Adjacent Panels - Burning Man Art Car

This version breaks up some larger strips and passes them through OpenNest. I discovered one number that had been included in two lists, might be good to have code check for that. Looks like the sequence of branches got out of sync. P.S. Cosmetic update to sync the colors. [hexagons_2024_Jul21cc] hexagons_2024_Jul21cc.gh (99.8 KB)

Went on to derive angles between adjacent faces in each strip.

[stevefuchs]

@Denis_Flueraru Are you asking about unrolling these surface to be flat on the ground, or are you looking to cleanup the 3D intersections so the triangular surfaces pair up better? Right now, I am seeing many gaps around the intersections. If the former, the latter may also need to be done, too. Let us know.

[Denis_Flueraru]

Thanks for the help so far, but what I want to do is remove the gaps from the intersection and have completely flat joints. That will make the octant flat.